Subjects Freshman Year Reading African American Studies African Studies American Studies Anthropology Art, Film, Music and Architecture Asian Studies Business and Economics Criminology Education Environmental Studies Foreign Language Instructional Materials Gender Studies History Irish Studies Jewish Studies Latin American & Caribbean Studies Law and Legal Studies Literature and Drama Literature in Spanish Media Issues, Journalism and Communication Middle East Studies Native American Studies Philosophy Political Science Psychology Reference Religion Russian and Eastern European Studies Science and Mathematics Sociology Study Aids


E-Newsletters: Click here to be notified of new titles in your field
Click here to request Desk/Exam copies
Freshman Year Reading
View Our Award Winners
Click here to view our Catalogs

3 Titles found

Sort: Author  Date  Format  Price  Title


Exam Copy
The Emperor's Children

Written by Claire Messud


Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 26, 2007
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-27666-7 (0-307-27666-X)

The Emperor’s Children is a richly drawn, brilliantly observed novel of fate and fortune—about the intersections in the lives of three friends, now on the cusp of their thirties, making their way—and not—in New York City. In this tour de force, the celebrated author Claire Messud brings to life a city... Read more >
Also available as an eBook and a hardcover.

Exam Copy
When the World Was Steady

Written by Claire Messud


Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 8, 2007
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-27951-4 (0-307-27951-0)

In this highly acclaimed novel by the author of The Emperor’s Children, life isn’t all Emmy and Virginia Simpson might have hoped. When Emmy’s marriage to an Australian man ends, she flees her home in Sydney for the tropical paradise of Bali to “find herself”—only to become embroiled with an eclectic... Read more >

Exam Copy
The Emperor's Children

Written by Claire Messud


Format: Hardcover, 448 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: August 29, 2006
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-26419-0 (0-307-26419-X)

From a writer “of near-miraculous perfection” (The New York Times Book Review) and “a literary intelligence far surpassing most other writers of her generation” (San Francisco Chronicle), The Emperor’s Children is a dazzling, masterful novel about the intersections in the lives of three friends, now on the cusp of their thirties... Read more >
Also available as an eBook and a trade paperback.
Page 1 of 1